Shea Homes Reviews in Phoenix Mesa, AZ

First, I would like to focus on the positive aspects of our experience. There are three people who have contributed to making this experience a success. They are Ryan, Kara and Lala. Each has contributed in their own way to help promote a collaborative effort to realize the completion of our home. Our first contact with Shea was Kara. From the start, she was professional, personable and had a great sense of humor. She was tolerant of our many questions, requests and complaints. Her graceful approach helped smooth things out that led to the creation of our home and hopefully a continued relationship. Ryan was with us the most. His generosity and gentle demeanor walked us through the different stages of the building process. He was challenged on many occasions by some of the vendors and then had to work with us to explain why things were not going as planned. There were challenging times, but he stuck with us, much to his credit. Lastly, LaLa has provided us with the follow up of warranty work, questions on how things work or don’t and kindness and humor when dealing with vendors who don’t show up for a service call. LaLa, like Ryan, goes above and beyond to provide us with the information and help we have needed to get this house off to a good start. On more than one occasion, she has made time for us outside of her schedule to help us. She is always positive and a delight to be with. There were a few issues that I would like to bring to your attention. During our buying and building experience, design changes were made but not communicated to us until after the fact. This required time and effort to develop a new design plan and to resolve ourselves that what we thought we could have was not possible. The other change that I would request is that you give your team the authority to make decisions based on their expertise and experience. For example, we have a scratch in one of our windows. An appointment was made for the vendor to address this. We waited an entire day for this gentleman to come out and say “Yes, it’s scratched and should be replaced “. This is a huge waste of our time to sit at home the entire day only to have the vendor confirm what Lala had already determined as a defect. It would save time and money and frustration for your homeowners not to have to go through an inefficient process such as this. Without the help, kindness and support of Kara, Ryan and Lala I would not have bought or continued with building this home. ... More

The home buying experience was overall good, but felt rushed before closing due to our agent being moved to another project a few weeks before closing. We were not able to work on a few changes and we were told it was not allowed. Our agent was excellent to work with but pulled off for another project before our close. In addition, the sub contractors that need to fix problems after the 1 month walk through are not very reliable, especially with window replacements, and other documented areas of the house.

Field manager was outstanding! Plumber utilized was average at best! It is deceiving to see a model home nicely decorated and not having same or similar options when building a new house( very disappointing no alternatives were available). Very pretty house and development!

Communication with the Shea Rep, field manager and warranty manager was very good. The Adobe systems were not transparent during the options/design decisions. For example, they didn't say that there were 3 places installed for the alarm keypad. Instead they waited until I was doing the set up after close to tell me that there was an extra charge per extra keypad. I found out through a friend it was wired for extra keypads. Dimmers on some low voltage lights under the counter but not under the bathroom toe kick. Not until I asked after closing did I get that. It is hard enough to move into a new house without having constant workmen coming and going. I opted for a light on the back of my house but that didn't include the fixture. Really? Couldhave said that. I had to buy it online and pay an electrician to install it. More prompts from the design center saying "do you want this?" Can't think of everything in those 2.5 days of design options. Two months after closing I'm still dealing with contractors. The sloppiness of the painters getting specks of paint on the tile wverywhere could have been avoided if they used a drop cloth. Now I have to mark all the spots and have them remove them. It should be a requirement "enforced" to wear booties to avoid concrete footprints on the tile. No one paid attention to the signs on the doors. Cleaning in preparation for my move in could have been better especially the glue on the tub, shower door and the windows. I was never asked where I wanted my dining room fixture so I had to pay an electrician to move and center it along with a can that was in the wrong place. I was never asked if I wanted a 20 amp in my garage. Again had to hire an electrician to put that in and pay for drywall repair on that and the light fixture positioning. Glue on the granite should have been cleaned off when installed. Being a detail person makes it hard to miss or ignore all of this. Overall I am very happy with my experience with Shea. Nothings perfect but the added stress would have been nice to avoid after closing. I really love all my options and my home is beautiful. ... More

Our home is still missing items. Other homes around us that are being completed have the items we are missing, yet we are constantly being told that we have to wait due to shortages. Do not accept your home if not 100% complete or you will be treated like a second rate human when it comes to getting the home completed as promised. We were so excited to buy our new home and especially it being a Shea Home, but have been treated like second rate humans after receiving our home. Each time we inquire about items that are supposed to be completed or replaced, we are told there are still back orders and we have to wait....except all the homes being built around us are getting the items. One would think that a company would take care of the people who trusted in them to keep their word. Sadly disappointed in our experience with Shea homes up to this point. ... More

The quality from model home to residential home is unexpectedly lower. The finish trades are not as high quality as they were in the model homes. Disappointing ! Richard has done everything possible to get the trades to complete work orders, sometimes they just don’t show up.

The buying process with Owen was exceptional. The design center process was rushed and way too many options in models were no longer available, making decisions very frustrating. Since we were local, we were able to find issues to be corrected readily. Primarily because we kept issues on our field manager’s plate did we end up with a home with most item’s resolved. Working with Joe to fix first month problems worked great.

Love the community and the house. Wish that they had done a better job in inspecting and cleaning the house before delivery. It would have been a better representation of the quality of the builder and less follow up for me and my wife.

Could not add options to patio, close to closing or after. Would like to use same contractor but said no by Shea. Makes no sense. Poor customer relationship. Must select all options at time of purchase.

Overall good quality and customer facing, but slow on follow up and responses after the sale.

We got off to a rough start with Shea. We selected the Latigo model at original document signing, only to find out 4 weeks afterward that Shea did not include cabinets in the Casita nor would Shea install cabinetry in the Casita. No one ever said a word about this, not our sales rep or any of the staff in the model home. And the models had no signage indicating such. We felt that was very misleading. When I tried to reason with Melissa T. about this issue, she gave me a car purchasing analogy that I found a bit insulting considering the amount of money we were spending. When Shea started the build, the foundation was put in the wrong place and our friends noticed the placement and contacted us. Fortunately, I had the correct plot plan and was able to get it to Abbey and Shea before the concrete was poured. This delayed our build 6 weeks and there was no apology, no compensation, nothing from Shea except an "Oops". Strike 2. That was souring. Working with the designers was unusual since we had to make all the aesthetic selections on line due to the quarantine, but we were able to finish. Angela was excellent. Shea built our home with all the correct selections. We will have to see how it fares living in it. I have already noticed some sloppy craftsmanship around the window installs. Large gaps between the stucco were filled in with caulking. Definitely not fine home building there. I will address this on our 6 month walk through (or whatever the month walk through coming up). Thank you for this opportunity. Greg and Yvonne Lot 794 ... More

Sale staff exceptional in all phases.. making the process less stressful..

Originally Shea didn't want us to close in mid-December until a much delayed garage door arrived and was installed. They finally agreed to install an alternative garage door to allow us to proceed with our closing. That was much appreciated. Our garage door finally arrived over a month later and was installed but had two damaged panels. Replacement panels arrived damaged. We are now approaching a three month wait without an acceptable door. We've asked our damaged door to be painted the proper color to allow our home to appear completed from a distance, but Shea has refused.

Shea builds a good product. We purchased a model home in Gateway Quarter and although it was priced as-is, the prep of repairing items such as holes in the wall and paint matching was not good. Promises regarding the replacement of dead landscaping were not kept.

Service rep. Informed us of scheduled repairs but no one showed up. He forgot to send work orders to vendors. Work was eventually completed. Lag time from request to completion can be a few weeks.

While the sale of the house and responsiveness to issues is actually very excellent. I feel the quality of work was very poor and attention to detail was extremely lacking. Having to work through all the issues and make sure they get resolved seems like it could have been avoided had the work been checked thoroughly before signing off on it. Customer care rep. Dominick has been very helpful though to make sure work will be repaired to customer satisfaction and always follows through with requests.

Great people and company. My impression is everyone is too stretched. Responsiveness and detail support could be better. At least in the community I am in, Trilogy Rio Verde

The buying experience was great, all Shea members were lovely to work with. We had a ton of issues with the finishes of the home. Everything is just a bit off - crooked, messy, missing, etc.

Hard to communicate with builder ….only text messages his phone mailbox always full. I understand delays but communication important! He was better toward end of construction _ mind you a year and half! I had one month appointment and still two issues not resolved? I’ve called twice - no call back? It’s been a month - I’ll have these two issues on the 5 month appointment- a few other things are needing attention as well! I get new homes always have issues - usually simple but would be nice for at least a call back.

Issues after delivery take too long to get resolved. We have 2 broken windows that were supposedly ordered before the house was finished. Been in house now 2 months, still have broken windows. Other issues same problem. Not responsive at all.

Buying was the east part, getting things fixed has been challenging. Both due to availability and half baked solutions, appointments are rescheduled without any communication, contractors refusing to fix things and blaming the issue on another team (plumber refusing to fix water pressure and passes blame to appliance installer when the issue is the water pressure from the wall, at another appointment scheduled for two window issues and contractor refused to fix one issue saying one window would be fixed by another team from the same company only to come back with the same team at another time to fix it). Some appointments are scheduled months out, haven’t been able to use the oven since purchasing the home 2 months ago for example. Had an issue with a door frame being crooked so they adjusted the door but the frame is still crooked to the naked eye. Definitely would’ve reconsidered a new build or the builder if I had known how difficult the warranty process would be. ... More

Poor workmanship. Many things were rushed, and it shows.

Everyone is responsive and will answer you in a short time. But after 5 months we still are waiting for repairs to our fireplace and stucco. The bathroom shower is dripping, plants that were supposed to be replaced 4 months ago still haven’t been replaced. Bathroom hardware fell off the wall and the front yard has sunk along the gas line from the rain. It was explained to me when this happened at a Taylor Morrison neighborhood that it was because of improper packing of the soil when the gas lines were installed. We waited for our range and hood due to shipping issues, which we understood. They came in October and the hood was damaged. We still do not have a hood and have had no updates as of 1/3/22 as to how long it might be. ... More

I believe your overall experience depends on who you get as a field manager.

I have purchased three houses from Shea in Recker Pointer community. Of the three houses, two have really bad issue with heating and Ac system. Multiple attempts to fix the issue did not get resolved and I was told that heating contractor is not responsible for the vent installation. I have try to reach out to Shea and no response yet. This is not acceptable since we have bought three houses brand new. Please have Shea representative to contact me and resolve the issue.